Thursday, January 27, 2011

Days 19-21 and PS: revisiting Day 15

Day 19 is supposed to be a picture and a letter. How about a picture OF a letter. That's the same thing, yes? Pretty much everybody calls me Liz. My siblings call me Lizard and most of the family on my dad's side call me Lizardbreath. But I was "Elizabeth" for a really long time. I fully intend to commission a ten-foot replica of this bad boy to install in my front yard in the week (month) leading up to my birthday. Nevermind that this amount of non-military pyrotechnics in base housing is probably the opposite of a good idea...it's still cool. So we'll see. =)
Day 20 - somewhere you'd like to travel. I believe this is off the coast of Australia. I have always wanted to go sleep on a hut set above the ocean, and have been sooo jealous of Paul's fun adventures over there during his MEU a few years ago. I love the cool boat taxi (it's only a couple hundred feet from shore, which is an important detail, as is the fact that these huts are NOT floating, but are firmly moored on the ocean floor) and the peacefulness. Paul says this looks totally boring; I said he doesn't have to come with me. =)

Okay, day 21. Something I wish I could forget. Haha, there are many, many things, but I'll pick a story from college. I pulled up to an intersection with four stop signs and the usual rule is, whoever arrived at the intersection first, goes first. Well, I needed to get to the studio where I taught ballet, because I had a new private lesson starting that day and I was going over her choreography. There was a van full of kids already at the intersection and the driver was one of those hesitant drivers who didn't just follow the rules and go...she sort of started and stopped and I honestly do not have patience for timidity in normal circumstances and when I'm in a hurry...it's not pretty. So I yelled at her to JUST GO!!!!! and waved my arms and made mean faces until she finally figured out that it was her turn, already. Well. Guess who the tall kid in the front seat was? That's right! My new student. Fortunately that wasn't her MOM driving or I probably would have lost my job.

PS to Day 15: I couldn't get this photo to load the first time. It's not how it is now, but how I want it to be.

1 comment:

The Whitefields said...

Totally with you on the little tiki huts on the water...amazing and something I WILL do before I die. And the lady in the picture blowing a gasket in her car looks really similar to you!!